Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-19
WASHINGTON.
Chief Justice Waite Makes a Ruling
in the Case of the Arrested
Virginia Officials.
He Sets the Case fer Trial In Noyem-
bsr and Releases the Prisoners
on a Nominal Bond.
The Critic on tho CoInugswsrtA Eyiesions,
Mexican War PenRicps-RAtsnts
Granted to Texas Inventors,
THE VIRGINIA CAAE.

WASHINGTON, OCT. I8.-In the United
States Supreme court to-day Chief Justice
Waite announced that argument upon
the questions raised by the hsbeas corpus.
case of Acknowledgement Ayres and the
other imprisoned state officers of Viz
ginia will be set down for the second
Monday in November and in the mean
Ihlle the prisoners will be set at liberty
on their own recogniZsnCe in the sum of
$1,000 each to answer the summons of
this court when their presence shall be
required. Explaining this decision the
Chief Justice stated that the prisoners
were public officers, charged with public
duties, and the presumption wss that
they were accused in this proceeding di-
rectly to obtain decision upon the cues
tion at issue and not manlfestly for con-
tempt for the court below. The Chief
Justice, in response to the inquiry, said
that the court would hear argument from
two attorneys for each side.
THE CRITICS EDITORIAL.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-The Critic, in
an editorial tonight, says: 'Contemp-
Oraneous with the evictions in Iowa and
Ireland q similar series of outrages is
going on in Collinsworth county, Texas,
at the hands OF what is known as the
"Rocking Chair RANCH" British corpor-
| alton which has fenced in q tract about
twenty by thirty miles in dimensions ana
containing nearly 1000 acres, only half
Of which, or the alternate sections, has it
any shadow of title. The settlers who
have filed upon the school lands
| inside OF the fence are now
threatened with ejectment from their
| little homes on Inc grounds that the
Ranch Company has proper lease on the
tract, and the lease IS in complication, that
| if once dispossessed it may be years be-
| fore their rights are sustained, conse-
quently they demand protection from the
state. All Of which is in further illustra-
ton of the dangers surrounding the grant
of large bodies of land to foreign corpo-
rations. l. is wrong in principle and bad
in policy"
TEXAS PENSIONERS.
| Special to the Gazette
| WASHINGTON, Oct. Is The following
! Texas pensions for the Mexican war were
issued to-day: Mary Jane, widow of W.
Fi1zaugh. Mckinney; Sarah a., widow of
| George II. Scott, Dallas; Joshus S. Ditto,
Arlington; John Hall, Del Rio; John
Palmer, Rice; Frio America, widow Of
billiard Al. Gay, Henderson; Jackson
Pickett, Fort Graham; Galloway 81. Pat
rick, Ferris; Henry A. O'Neil, Linden;
H. C. Ellis, Cleburne; William Ashton,
Rockdale; John L Owen, Paris; Frank
lin Hopson, Luoax.
TEXAS PATENTS.
! Patents were Issued TO-DAY to the fol-
| lowing Texans: Frank L. Allen, Round
Rock, corn planting attachment for
plows; George Foster, Galveston, cleo
| ri all oin hn
| Kirk, Austin, two patents on pl WIS; VII
liam Koepk, Wahalla, corn plsnter; Alex
Robertson, Denton, horse shoe; John
! Robinson, com oination chopper, harrow
and cultivator; James w. Vanmeter, Oak
vile, windmill; Charles Z. Brownwell,
Helena, Ark car starter.
wATTERsON's NEW PAPER.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-It Is given out
here that MIR. Henry Watterson of the
ing ION correspondent of that paper, have
determined to start Sunday paper in
this city to be called the Avenue
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The Interstate
Commerce Commission to-day took up
the case of LeVerett Leonard of Mt.
Leonard, Ind vs.. the Union Pacific Rtil-
road Company. In this case plaintiff al
leges the railroad company charged him
SO per cent in excess of regular rates for
transportation of live stock in the stock
cara and proposes that the commission
compel the railroad company to refund
the collection. Afser short statement
of the case and brief argument the COM
mission dismissed the complaint without
! prejudice for want Of proof.